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| Kristin R KruegerSummaryAffiliation: Rush University Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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The Word Accentuation Test - ChicagoKristin R Krueger
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 28:1201-7. 2006..These results indicate that the Word Accentuation Test-Chicago is a psychometrically sound measure of Spanish reading ability that is robustly related to general cognitive ability...- Personality and incident disability in older personsKristin R Krueger
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Age Ageing 35:428-33. 2006..to examine the relation of personality to the development of disability in old age... 
Social engagement and cognitive function in old ageKristin R Krueger
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center and Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Exp Aging Res 35:45-60. 2009..The results confirm that higher level of social engagement in old age is associated with better cognitive function but the association varies across domains of social engagement...- Loneliness and risk of Alzheimer diseaseRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:234-40. 2007..Social isolation in old age has been associated with risk of developing dementia, but the risk associated with perceived isolation, or loneliness, is not well understood... - A battery of tests for assessing cognitive function in older Latino personsKristin R Krueger
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 23:384-8. 2009..The results suggest that this battery may be useful in epidemiologic research on cognition in older Latinos... - Neuroticism, extraversion, and mortality in a defined population of older personsRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Psychosom Med 67:841-5. 2005..The objective of this study was to test the association of the personality traits of neuroticism and extraversion with risk of death in old age... - Childhood adversity and psychosocial adjustment in old ageRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:307-15. 2006..The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that higher level of childhood adversity is associated with lower level of psychosocial adjustment in old age... - Loss of basic lexical knowledge in old ageRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 600 South Paulina Ave, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 82:369-72. 2011..Basic lexical skills are hypothesised to be relatively preserved in mild dementia, but clinical studies have reported inconsistent results... - Early and late life cognitive activity and cognitive systems in old ageRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Armour Academic Center, 600 South Paulina, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 11:400-7. 2005..The results suggest that past cognitive activity contributes to current cognition principally through its association with cognitive activity in old age... 
Demographic adjustments for the Spanish version of the WAIS-IIIJames P Choca
Psychology Department, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 24:619-29. 2009..The results showed the adjustments succeed in bringing the Spanish norms closer to the US norms...- Hallucinations and mortality in Alzheimer diseaseRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Dept of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 13:984-90. 2005..The authors tested the relationship of hallucinations and delusions to mortality in Alzheimer disease (AD)...